Statistics for On This Day (June 17th) Multiple Choice

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  • The average score is 5 of 15

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
1885 – Which future landmark arrives in New York Harbor ?Statue of Liberty
100%
1944 – Iceland declares independence from which country and becomes a republic ?Denmark
67%
1943 – Barry Alan Pincus , American singer-songwriter and producer is born in New York. By what name is he better known ?Barry Manilow
33%
1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: Which country announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon ?China
33%
1953 – East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into which city to quell a rebellion ?East Berlin
33%
1922 – Portuguese naval aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral complete the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic. They flew from Lisbon to where ?Rio de Janeiro
33%
1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the edict of toleration which gives which religion the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands ?Roman Catholicism
33%
1767 – Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights and is considered the first European to reach which island ?Tahiti
33%
1957 – Philip Chevron, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist is also born on this day. He is best known as the guitarist for which Irish band ?The Pogues
33%
653 – Pope Martin I is arrested in the Lateran Palace before being taken to Constantinople and tried for what crime ?Treason
33%
1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed outside the Saint-Pierre prison in which city ?Versailles
33%
1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II forcing him to retreat from which region ?Wallachia
33%
1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion for England. What is Nova Albion called today ?California
0%
1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules against requiring what in public schools ?Reciting of the Lord's Prayer
0%
1795 – The burghers of which South African town expel the Dutch East India Company magistrate and declare a republic ?Swellendam
0%

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